Tori’s Comments (group member since Nov 25, 2016)

Tori’s comments from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.

I Second:
- Educated
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

I second:
- Pride and Prejudice
- The War of the Worlds
- The Master and Margarita

I Second:
I Am a Cat
Dune and
The Martian

March 11
303 pages

Group total pages: 418,627

Elizabeth wrote: "Either Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe or One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez....started these so many times maybe it would help if I was reading with others..."

Thank you for your nominations, we have already read One Hundred Years of Solitude. It has been nominated and is one of the front-runners on the catch-up thread here !

March 6
403 pages

Total Group Pages: 395,187

Thank you everyone who is checking the totals, You guys are doing great at keeping us on track!

March 5
398 pages

Total Group pages: 388,076

We've already read The Sun Also Rises as a group. It has been nominated on the catch-up shelf this month. If you want to second it please do so here .

March 1
293 pages

Total Group Pages: 376,123

Also, how did you guys mark out the countries that you've already read?

Hi Kyra!

< s > (without spaces) the writing you want to score through goes here < / s > (once again without spaces)

Hopefully that makes sense. you can also click on the (some html is ok) link in the upper right corner when you are editing your post if you need clarification.

Tracking: through message 60

Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds
Pride and Prejudice (279 p.) - 14
The Woman in White (672 p.) - 1
The War of the Worlds (192 p.) - 9
Strangers on a Train (256 p.) - 2
The Invisible Man (192 p.) - 8
Death Comes for the Archbishop (297 p.) - 1
The Sorrows of Young Werther (149 p.) - 4
Eugénie Grandet (200 p.) - 1
Lolita (417 p.) - 10
The Three Musketeers (625 p.) - 5
The Master and Margarita (373 p.) - 11
The Count of Monte Cristo (1276 p.) - 16
Cane (144 p.) - 1
Look Homeward, Angel (644 p.) - 1
The Good Earth (418 p.) - 1
Around the World in Eighty Days (252 p.) - 2


NOTE: the nominees that are bolded and italicized are the poll front-runners.

Hello everyone! I will be running the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for May 2019! This discussion is for the CLASSICS CATEGORY.

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1969 or before. For newer books, please make your suggestion on the Modern Classic/Popular Reads thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.

3. Be reasonably well-read to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.

Not a hard and fast rule, but please try to limit your nominations to one book per category. But please do second any that interest you! The number of seconds determine poll inclusion.

>>> Attention, please: We will be featuring page numbers in the poll, so please include page numbers in your nomination if possible.

Nominations end Midnight March 16.

Tracking: through message 57

Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds
Educated (334 p.) - 13
The Light Between Oceans (343 p.) - 12
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (422 p.)
The Madonnas of Leningrad (228 p.) - 1
The Alice Network (532 p.) - 4
Salt to the Sea (393 p.)
A Gentleman in Moscow (462 p.) - 11
Everything Is Illuminated (276 p.) - 2
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (226 p.) - 10
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (432 p.) - 3
Lonesome Dove (945 p.) - 2
Before We Were Yours (342 p.) - 6
Beloved (324 p.) - 6
Atonement (351 p.) - 3
Americanah (477 p.) - 7
The Great Alone (435 p.) - 2
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (479 p.) - 2


NOTE: the nominees that are bolded and italicized are the poll front-runners.

Hello everyone! I will be running the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for May 2019!This discussion is for the MODERN CLASSIC/POPULAR category.

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1970 or after. For older books, please make your suggestion on the Classics thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.

3. Be reasonably well-read to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.

Not a hard and fast rule, but please try to limit your nominations to one book per category. But please do second any that interest you! The number of seconds determine poll inclusion.

>>> Attention, please: We will be featuring page numbers in the poll, so please include page numbers in your nomination if possible.

Nominations end Midnight March 16.

Tracking: through message 55

Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (320 p.) - 1
The Handmaid's Tale (344 p.) - 12
Never Let Me Go (288 p.) - 6
The Sun Also Rises (189 p.) - 10
One Hundred Years of Solitude (417 p.) - 14
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (325 p.) - 7
The Shining (447 p.) - 2
Dark Matter (342 p.) - 1
A Tale of Two Cities (489 p.) - 1
I Am a Cat (480 p.) - 2
A Clockwork Orange (212 p.) - 2
The Hate U Give (444 p.) - 2
Romeo and Juliet (281 p.) - 2
Little Fires Everywhere (336 p.) - 2
Anna Karenina (964 p.) - 1
The Martian (369 p.) - 6
1984 (237 p.)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372 p.) - 2
Jane Eyre (507 p.) - 3
The Book Thief (552 p.) - 4
The Jungle Book (277 p.) - 4
Dune (604 p.) - 3
The Diary of a Young Girl (304 p.) - 1
Murder on the Orient Express (274 p.)

NOTE: the nominees that are bolded and italicized are the poll front-runners.

Remember, we can't nominate books we have reread as a group in the last twelve months, and those are

Wuthering Heights
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
Little Women
A Christmas Carol
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A Man Called Ove
All the Light We Cannot See

Hello everyone! I will be running the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for May 2019! This discussion is for the category called BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP.

For this category, you can nominate any book that the group has previously read. For a list of books that the group has previously read and discussed, please see the Bookshelf.

Books featured as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible.

>>> Attention, please: We will be featuring page numbers in the poll, so please include page numbers in your nomination if possible.

Nominations end Midnight March 16.

Level 1 – Difficult
Read so far: 9/13

1. Ireland - Hide the Elephant by Jonathan Dunne February 8
2. United Kingdom - The Death of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware January 6
3. Netherlands - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal April 30
4. Germany - The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
5. Poland - Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
6. Ukraine - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
7. Russia - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov September 22
8. China - Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran October 19
9. India - The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni April 29
10. Pakistan -I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai August 16
11. Indonesia - Paper Boats by Dee Lestari March 27
12. Japan - I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume
13. Canada - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery January 24

February 28
440 pages

Total group pages: 367,426